Sacramento traveler wants TSA screener arrested for security pat-down

[The Straight Story]

Sacramento traveler wants TSA screener arrested for security pat-down

SACRAMENTO, CA - A woman who said she felt sexually violated by a security screener at Sacramento International Airport is insisting on a criminal investigation.

Wendy James Gigliotti, 43, believes she was pulled from the line of passengers going through security Tuesday morning because she was wearing a loose-fitting skirt.

Gigliotti said the female screener ordered her to spread her legs, and then conducted an extremely personal pat-down in full view of other passengers.

"I feel like I was sexually assaulted. Anybody but my husband or my doctor shouldn't be touching me up between my legs," she said.

http://www.news10.net/news/story.aspx?storyid=106898&catid=2

[hlthe2b]

1. You go, Wendy... this needs to stop.

:mad:

[durkermaker]

2. this is going too far nt

[madmax]

3. This bullshit is nothing more than 'copping a free feel.'

As we used to say back in the day... :mad:

At least then we had the right to slap or knee the bastard. These guys are wearing uniforms and have the added gift of 'authority'.

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. It was...a matter of time

[avaistheone1]

5. Thanksgiving holiday weekend I think all hell is going to break loose.

You can bank on it. People are pissed off.



k&r

[RufusTFirefly]

6. The problem is outrageous and the concerns are real, but

... this is being manipulated as a cynical means of replacing public employees with private security firms. It won't feel any better to have Blackwater thugs groping you.

[madmax]

7. Right on - as I posted somewhere - take a cue from Israel.

No groping involved. Now, if anyone has security issues and have handled it well it would be Israel.

Our country acts like a man who is lost and will not stop and ask for directions. :wtf: is up with that?

[Xithras]

8. The TSA shouldn't exist, but the reality is that NOBODY should be groping you.

No TSA, no Blackwater, nobody.

And FWIW, my local airport had security officers who were unionized employees of our local county before the TSA took over. They were badged LEO's, members of the union that represented our Sheriffs department, and all had the same formal education and training that any LEO goes through.

They were all summarily fired and replaced with minimum wage TSA burger flippers when the Feds took everything over.

The TSA should have never been formed, and it should be disbanded. The federal government's role should be to set standards for airline security, and to verify that the airports are following them, but the responsibility for that security should belong to the cities, counties, and states that actually own and control the airports.

[krabigirl]

10. Of course it won't. The groping and the nudie machines need to disappear completely.

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. Take a cue from Israel

[krabigirl]

9. Good for her.

[Subdivisions]

12. Seems a LOT of people are beginning to get pissed. I can't imagine

being someone who doesn't pay a lot of attention to news and doesn't fly enough to know about these new TSA rules and then going to the airport only to be forcefully subjected to a sexual assualt. Those people must come away from the experience thoroughly terrorized.